ISRAELI CROP CIRCLE UPDATE 

The Israeli crop circle, the country's first ever alien pictograph is
turning into a most important event with international significance.
Following is the story as it stands now.

On the evening of April 12, 1998 a resident of the Jezreel Valley Arab
village of Zarzir heard dogs bark wildly, looked outside and saw small
lights darting in a nearby wheat field. The next day he told his friend
Golan Masrin (30) about the incident and he went to the field, thus
discovering the crop circle.

Compared to those of Southern England, the circle is a simple design. It is
a half circle of 26 meters diameter with a 26 meter straight line disecting
it from within, creating two quarter circles of wheat. The effect is a
picture similar to an umbrella.

Within the circle were seven round pods in the mud. All vegetation within
was killed and the ground was severely dessicated compared to the
surrounding soil. In four of the pods, the soil was coated in a white
powder, while in the other three pods there was a red oily fluid. Where the
fluid fell on wheat stalks, the plants turned brown compared to healthy
plants in the field. Yet even in the field just beyond the circle, some
wheat stalks were missing their heads and they could not be located beside
the plants.

Young ufologist Gil Bar painstakingly collected the powder and oil from the
earth and stored them in vials. I took chemist, Dr. Marvin Antleman to see
Bar's samples and his first reaction to the oil was that it had the unique
crimson color of cobalt. He is attempting to arrange laboratory testing.


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